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Meet Addy : an American girl / by Connie Porter ; illustrations, Melodye Rosales ; vignettes, Renée Graef, Luann Roberts.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.P825 Me 1993 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-
- Series:
- American girls collection
- The American girls collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile fiction.
- Underground Railroad.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Underground Railroad--Fiction.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction.
- United States.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 69 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [Middleton, WI] : Pleasant Company, [©1993]
- Summary:
- In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
- Contents:
- Whispers of freedom
- Sold!
- A new plan
- Into the night
- Freedom taken.
- Notes:
- "Edited by Roberta Johnson."
- "Designed by Myland McRevey and Jane S. Varda"--t.p. verso.
- "Art Directed by Kathleen A. Brown"--t.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy has 2 page advertisement with postcard addressed to the Pleasant Company bound in.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1-2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has additional preliminary page listing additional titles about Addy.
- Banks Collection copies 1-2 have postcards addressed to Pleasant Company laid in.
- Banks Collection copy 2 is paperback "First Edition 2" printing.
- ISBN:
- 1562470760 :
- 9781562470760
- 1562470752
- 9781562470753
- OCLC:
- 27066911
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